a Bounty, to encourage the Exportation of Corn. 419 
tenant. To remedy this, the bounty was de- 
vifed, and a market was procured abroad: for 
it was clearly feen, as the demand increafed, 
the price mufi do fo too ; and the event fully 
evinced the policy of the meafure, for the year 
following, the price was nearly double. Could 
this relief have been given to the farmer and 
land-owner, without injury to the reft of the 
community, it would have been juft: but, when 
it is confidered, that there is no one, even in the 
loweft circumftances of life, who is not taxed to 
pay the bounty, perhaps it will appear rather 
cruel, to oblige poor wretches, who with the 
greateft care and induftry, cannot provide bread 
fufficient to fupport their families, to contribute 
towards the enriching of the farmer, and in¬ 
creasing of the rent of the land-owner. 
But, what fays the advocate for the bounty ? 
Why, he tells you, that the time of granting 
it is the great aera, from which, improvements 
in agriculture are to be dated. That at the 
fame time, it has benefitted the land-owner 
and the fanner, has added to the riches of 
the nation, and has lowered the price of corn, 
which is a common blefting to all. That it 
has been very beneficial to the land-owner and 
farmer, we not only admit, but have proved; 
but that it has added to the riches of the na¬ 
tion, is denied : and that it Should be the means 
of lowering the price of corn, is contradictory, 
abfurd, and impoftible. But it is faid, it has 
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